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FOX News
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Starbucks has closed a coffeehouse in China's former imperial palace, the company said Saturday, ending a seven-year presence that sparked protests by Chinese critics who said it stained the image of a key historical site.
The froth over Starbucks at B..
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Economist
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ROSS PEROT, a populist American politician, predicted in the early 1990s that a trade pact with Mexico would create a ‘‘giant sucking sound’’ as jobs headed south. Instead, America experienced full employment. So giant-sucking-sound detectors turn..
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Bloomberg
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U.S. trash has made Zhang Yin China's richest person. Zhang in 1990 started collecting wastepaper in Los Angeles and shipping it to China to make the cardboard needed by growing export industries...
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Christian Science Monitor
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For China, it's a record buildup of foreign capital. For the rest of the world, it serves as a reminder: To an increasing degree, bureaucrats in Beijing aren't just guiding their own economy, but the world's as well...
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BusinessWeek
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In their quest to develop new drugs, Western pharmaceutical companies are increasingly teaming up with companies in China and India
In the late 1990s, scores of U.S. multinationals were catching on to the cost-cutting benefits of sending work to Asia...
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BusinessWeek
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From Tibet to Olympic torch protests to Sichuan earthquake relief, the Chinese blogosphere is giving companies an angry earful
Was the Sichuan earthquake, which has killed tens of thousands of Chinese, some sort of retribution for the Beijing governmen..
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BusinessWeek
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Western businesses are harnessing Olympic fervor in China and playing up national pride in their advertising campaigns
As a sponsor of the Beijing Olympics, McDonald's (MCD) has built most of its global marketing campaign around the idea of people from..
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BusinessWeek
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Much of the anger has been directed at CNN for its allegedly biased coverage of protests in Tibet and along the route of the Olympic flame
Ms. Huang, a 26-year-old from Beijing (who does not want her full name published), recently went shopping for som..
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BusinessWeek
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The world's No. 2 retailer is facing a boycott because of pro-Tibet protests in Paris and President Sarkozy's threat to shun Olympic ceremonies
In a new signal of its status as a global economic power, China now appears ready to use market muscle to re..
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BusinessWeek
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Arab investors have typically looked West, rather than to China and India. But with oil at over $100 a barrel, that's changing in a big way
Standard Chartered banker V. Shankar, head of corporate finance and private banking in Singapore, these days spe..
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BBC News
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China's inflation hit 8.7% in February, the highest rate in over 11 years, the National Statistics Bureau said.
Soaring food prices were driving inflation, up 23.3% in February against the previous year, the bureau said.
It attributed the jump to sn..
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BusinessWeek
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Key to its global expansion plan, China's leading beermaker aims to break out of the niche market in the U.S.
Crown Imports, the largest beer importer in the U.S., sells more Tsingtao beer every year during Chinese New Year than any other period. This..
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BusinessWeek
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The tech giant delivered better-than-expected results as growth in China, India, and elsewhere could offset any impact of a U.S. slowdown
Blame it on Rio. And Moscow, Dehli, and Beijing. That's how Hewlett-Packard helped explain financial results that..
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BBC News
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China's trade surplus soared 22.7% in January as the economy continued to boom despite efforts to cool the rate of growth, official figures have shown.
The surplus - the gap between what China exports and what it imports - grew to $22.7bn (�11.5bn) l..
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CNN
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China will spend more than $1.25 billion to rebuild wrecked houses, restore farms and help the poor pay for food and heat in areas where snowstorms killed at least 107 people, the government said Thursday. "As the situation develops, we will also increase..
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BBC News
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China has teamed up with US aluminium giant Alcoa to buy a 12% stake in Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto for $14.05bn (�7.05bn).
The state-owned Aluminium Corp of China (Chinalco) said the purchase was the largest Chinese investment overseas.
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BBC News
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China's cabinet says it will temporarily intervene in the market to curb rampant food and fuel price rises.
Retailers and producers will face heavy fines if they increase the price of basic necessities, the government says.
Food prices climbed more..
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BBC News
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A new rail freight service between Germany and China, that would be twice as quick as sea travel, has been backed by six countries, Chinese media says.
The China Daily state newspaper says China, Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany are to wor..
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CNN
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Shareholders in China's third-largest airline rejected a bid by Singapore Airlines to buy a minority stake Tuesday after a rival Chinese carrier offered more money in an unusual public takeover battle involving two state-owned companies. China Eastern Air..
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BusinessWeek
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In congressional hearings, the Yahoo! co-founder and CEO will address questions about the company's role in human rights violations in China
For two years, journalist Shi Tao has been confined in a Chinese prison for the contents of an e-mail. On Nov...
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